Small & Medium Enterprise and Startup Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs
SME Sustainability Ecosystem Program
中小企業永續生態系計畫
Industry chapter14 · Small and Medium Enterprise
Eligibility
Companies meeting the SME Identification Standards (Article 2) on paid-in capital or regular headcount.
What’s offered
Mobilizes designated research institutes to help SMEs develop green products and services, conduct sustainability diagnostics, train staff, and drive a full net-zero transformation.
Program structure
Ecosystem focus industries
- Metal products and other high-end resilient infrastructure (powertrain, fitness equipment).
- Health & medical (medical devices, assistive technology).
- New high-value materials (no waste-stream feedstock).
- Agri-tech.
Counseling content
- Leverage research-institute-led ecosystem coaching to integrate cross-industry upstream/downstream collaboration into a common operating model.
- Combine green materials with low-carbon manufacturing to give SMEs access to green-product R&D experiments and pilot new product opportunities along sustainability lines.
Energy-saving diagnostics & talent development
- Deploy specialists to conduct on-site energy/carbon diagnostics and recommend efficiency-improvement plans.
- Cultivate AI-enabled carbon-reduction talent that can help companies overcome their carbon bottleneck.
Application window
Per the annual announcement.
Who to contact
Metal Industries Research & Development Centre (MIRDC)
財團法人金屬工業研究發展中心
Ms. Chen (陳小姐)
English-language application support: not confirmed. Plan to bring a Mandarin-fluent collaborator to the first conversation.